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Package: alien (8.64)

install non-native packages with dpkg

Alien allows you to convert LSB, Red Hat, Stampede and Slackware Packages into Debian packages, which can be installed with dpkg.

It can also generate packages of any of the other formats.

This is a tool only suitable for binary packages.

Tags: Software Development: Packaging, Implemented in: Perl, User Interface: Command Line, Role: Program, Application Suite: Debian, Purpose: Data Conversion, Works with: Archive, Packaged Software, Supports Format: Tar Archives

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